skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you say, but could you please name some examples?

Iceland already has full access to the single market and Schengen. Historically during times of economic shocks, having our own currency has been useful as it allowed for more flexibility (i.e currency controls, self governance over central bank rates etc). Would taking up the Euro make the island more resilient or less able to respond to shocks? Economists seem to not fully agree on the matter.

I have personally never bought into the scare mongering by the island's quota kings - and fully support making the fishing quota a nationally own resource along with propper utlization fee structures - but having a partner who's doctorate is in fisheries management and having personally had a lifelong interest in the matter my self, I don't believe for a second that our fisheries would be better off dictated by Brussels. I reserve the right to change my mind when, and if, a deal is ever presented that indicates otherwise.

Tourism is already back to pre pandemic levels, so I don't see how anything would change there. Iceland is and always will be a very expensive destination for tourists. Most things need to be shipped in, and joining the Union will not change that in any way.

Aluminum brings in a decent amount, via large scale electrical usage contracts made with the state owned electrical company. While these deals are secret, it is public knowlege that they are tied to the global price of aluminum. Having income in a foreign currency but expenditure in the domestic currency is surely a good thing for the government and all of it's agencies.

Would the government have access to better loans if joining the Union and taking up the euro? Perhaps. However, the loan rating for the Icelandic government is already fairly good, sitting at A+, that I'm not sure that there would be a big impact.

Just to make it clear, I am all for the European Union (heck, I even moved from Iceland and live on mainland Europe) but joining it isn't such a clear cut black/white calculus as your comments have made it sound like.
Fresh lychees. I wondered why my friend raved about them when they're hard to peel and flavorless. And then I traveled to Mauritius.
Knowing where my stolen car is located is a problem for the police and then my insurance company and then me. The tracker is not adding an incredible amount of value for most consumers outside of large fleet vehicle and heavy equipment operators.

Briefly looking at the market it seems it's mostly focused on those two use cases plus parents attempting to monitor their children's driving locations and habits. So they're also weaponizing our children to an extent.
Haha, you might want to look at the history of US-Mexico relations. If you're going to speak of historical things it's relevant that the relations there have an oddly large amount in common. Texas was a part of Mexico! A reasonable wiki page to start the crawl would probably be Mexican Texas. [1] You've got all the good stuff: ethnic conflict, weaponized migrations, separatist movements supported by a foreign government, brutal wars, annexation referendums, and so on. And Cuba indeed - one of the compromises at the end of the nuclear stand-off is that the US would stop trying to invade Cuba!

Reading Plato and other great philosophers is interesting (The Republic in particular is an amazing read) because they can often sound like prophets - predicting the future with such extreme accuracy at a time that ostensibly had basically nothing in common with ours. But I think their 'secret' is simply that they were great objective observers of the behavior of humanity. Because history is not especially creative, it keeps repeating itself endlessly, because humanity doesn't change except as a product of technology changing.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Texas
What's that got to do with corporatism?
Let's go!!
man i love the cleanliness

sounded like a vasectomy site though haha
>If you’ve ever heard someone claim that Test-Driven Development leads to zero-defects code

I havent. It's a lot more reliable, still not 100% reliable.

>If you can define the inputs, predict the outputs, and cover edge cases, TDD is like a superpower. But the real world is rarely that tidy.

shrug it ought to be that tidy if you specify your features before building them.

For writing code to test a sin function (a bit of a contrived example, but let's run with it) - well, that would be an excellent candidate for property test driven development because there are straightforward invariants you can define.

When edge cases crop up for other styles of code, well, talk about them with your PM and write test cases for them too.

If the spec is something like a UI which is visual and specified imprecisely with a sketch or something, snapshot test driven development more appropriate but that's still just a variant of TDD.
Adding an easter egg command to your chat app is trivial. Actually making it good, stable, usable is not, especially if you prioritize easter eggs.
Yes I get that using the models costs a lot more than training. But using them isn’t free. Even using a large nVidia chip for a fraction of a second is expensive. So where does this money come from? Gains from paid tiers, investor money?
Only thing that surprises me is that it took so long.

I don't mind people vaping at all but there's no point in destroying the environment at the same time.
Ransomware, a type of malware, just needs to encrypt your files so you can't access it, no network access required. totally detectable after the fact, but by that time it's too late.
Lucy: A concise language for describing Finite State Machines
I agree with the sentiment that great APIs are a prerequisite to great SDKs, but great SDKs are really about time saving. Consider AWS's API, which requires a specific signing mechanism. That is annoying to implement manually. In general, the common method of shared-secret passed via bearer token is pretty insecure. I hope to see that change over time, and SDKs can help facilitate that.
Ah yes, they have ARM binaries indeed in the download section. I got trapped by the "minimum requirements": Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 processor or newer, which made me think it only ran on x86
It's possible that they explored all acquisition possibilities they could find without the world knowing about their situation, and that the only company or companies who could reach acceptable terms to acquire them didn't have the network links to find out that Bench was acquirable until the news broke that they were shutting down.

Obviously not an ideal situation, both parties (if an acquisition is indeed happening) would prefer to have been able to do it before Bench's announcement, but there's simply no way to let every single person & company in the world who might consider acquiring them know what's on the table without the information being public knowledge too.
It's truly fascinating how Republicans can get the working class Americans to vote against their own interests.
Yeah in the Netherlands most young people don't smoke anymore. In Spain a lot of them do and people even smoke in clubs etc while this is banned EU wide.

It doesn't bother me at all but it does happen.
Is there no truth to the California fast food restaurant closure wave I heard about when they raised fast food minimum wage to $20/hour?
You can do what you are describing in Haskell just fine. Eg you can implement 'overloaded' arithmetic operations for your custom data types.

I think what's described in the article goes a lot further than this. (Though I'm not sure it's worth it.)

Compare also https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/
Well, tbf, I'm speculating based on the evidence provided. But, if NYT provides a poor—or non-existent—experience to anyone, for example, without JavaScript enabled, then it fits my definition of "bad".
It also describes the blockchain / Web3 / decentralization crowd. Sure, the technology is great, but if all you've built is a Twitter clone, why would anyone care to use it?
My main point was that the batteries are replaced anyway, if the product still has life in it (os updates, decent perf) because people have shops replace batteries or they trade them in when upgrading and they are refurbished and resold. But all of this hinges on the product being a high cost/long support product to begin with, like iPhone. Cheaper androids don’t fit this description.
A perfect fit for Softbank. I do not understand why a 'dream deal' between them has not happened yet?
There were lots of other groups of people in between. Even if only neighbouring people traded with each other, the trade network could still span the continents, with some items moving much farther than the individual people.
That's absolutely nothing to do with it. The problem with it is it would just cause massive inflation, driving up prices, and cut any jobs that aren't absolutely essential.
Instead of taking a image every 5 seconds from the video and embed it, you could detect when there are enough changes between frames to decide to embed or not. One frame, one scene, one vector.

For instance, Ffmpeg can do that with the filter `select=gt(scene,0.3)`. It selects the frames whose scene detection score is greater then 0.3 (the scene change detection score are values between 0 and 1).

https://ffmpeg.org//ffmpeg-filters.html#select_002c-aselect
As Cory Doctorow has documented, you're frequently still the product even when paying: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/12/market-failure/#car-wars
$50 a pack? Yeah at those prices you can bet a black market crops up.

IMO this is only causing more problems. It won't put people off smoking because cheaper illegal alternatives arrive and it will create heavy crime syndicates.
This seems unnecessarily negative. Teaching analogies don't need to perfectly resemble the system being taught. From a pedagogical perspective, the aim is typically to relate something unfamiliar to something familiar, like water flowing in a pipe, in order to help someone gain footing in a topic.

Further connections can be developed mathematically; electric force propagation does obey wave equations, after all. But by then the analogy has served its purpose and should be droppped in favor of more rigorous knowledge development.
I'm no fan of Johnson but he gets way too much blame for Vietnam and Kennedy doesn't get near enough.
As a Brit, that sounds like a positive not a negative, though I appreciate that in the US it might be a political negative.
I mean, a lens is only a third of the camera, the other two being the sensor, and the ISP. A lens doesn't produce a photo in itself.

This would be like someone announcing a new RAM innovation -- and people asking what its Cinebench or Geekbench score is.
Exactly. My boyfriend’s mom is that waitress trope. She sure was happy when he got an EE degree though. Hard work to do forever.
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It largely depends on where you live.
A few years back I arrived at a venue sans phone* waiting for a date to arrive. I was early and she was late.

It was actually incredible to get the visceral reminder of just how ingrained having my phone for distraction was to me. I didn't take any action but sometimes wonder if I should have.

*I had lent my phone to a friend, who was using it to communicate with the person who had found their phone and making recovery/transfer easier... classic?
I see what you did there.

But the actual amount of effort to get to the level of dropbox in a multiple device context is a number of magnitude higher than the triviality of autoloading a handful of cli tool in different panes and synchronizing them in tmux.
You can design something in such a way that the most important and relevant piece of the solution comes later. The order doesn't matter.

Amazon is full of zombocominess. It's not a bad thing. The name itself is very zombo, _it can be anything_.

The book selling is a great MVP for their final goal, a huge wide ass platform. It's all over the company history (what they bought, how the grew).

You can design stuff in all kinds of weird ways. The first iPhone was a zombomachine. It had everything: it was a phone, it was an ipod, it was an internet device, it was a platform...

Platforms are awesome and if you have the resources you should totally build with one in mind.
It’s irrelevant to your point, so yes.

You’re either making a statement about conservatives or you’re talking about actual ideas. You can’t have a meaningful conversation about ideas if you’re doing tribalism.
Yes, not much progress since - apart from Russia, China and the USA increasing pressure... I suppose they support our federalist project and try to motivate us !
Who bills by the minute? When I freelance hourly I bill in 30 minute increments. I know some freelancers who bill in 15 minute increments, others who round to the hour, or charge a day rate.
But most people don't recycle them, just dump them on a street corner or in a normal waste bin. This is really the problem. So much lithium is wasted and this is very heavy on the environment to extract.
How do they define success after we gave them all the capital they're requesting?
A novel mathematical framework for bidirectional recursive feedback systems
A recursive feedback system using a universal equation for achieving stabilization and symmetry across diverse domains. The properties of boundedness, symmetry, and convergence are rigorously analyzed, demonstrating their applicability to fields such as physics, biology, artificial intelligence, economics, and computational systems. By generalizing the system’s dynamics, this work introduces a mathematical foundation for understanding equilibrium in complex systems, with wide-ranging practical applications.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Unimaginable Sums of Money
Nope, the introduction is unfounded flame bait. So I assume someone using that is not engaging with any intent to have a meaningful discourse.

It has nothing to do with feeling uncomfortable, it’s a statement about held beliefs being associated with a particular group and there is no evidence to back it up.

It doesn’t matter who he thinks holds that view. Discuss the idea and refute it directly or shut up. Drop the appeals to tribalism
So what is the approval of staying in USA for the states? Approval for a specific politician will of course usually be lower than approval for the union as a whole.
Or maybe it's less about the politics and more about plain old celebrity worship. This thread isn't really all that different from when the average well known actor or musician dies.
Condoms too? Or do you suggest people wash them for reuse?
Is there a real demand for features like these..?
You're misunderstanding why it gets mocked.

Twitter launched a paid tier, Twitter Blue, before the Musk takeover. It was a sensible move, offering additional features such as edit functionality for power users, but not harming the experience for those who chose not to buy into it.

Most importantly, it was entirely separate to the use of blue ticks to denote verified and authentic accounts. In fact, there was as far as I know no visual indication that someone was a Twitter Blue user.

When Musk took over, one of his first changes was to combine Twitter Blue and the verified programme, removing any actual verification in favour of a claim that anyone who had paid was 'verified'. The company also artificially boosts the posts of those who have bought this new premium tier, which disadvantages everyone else.

Buying a blue tick is seen, quite rightly now, as buying an artificial boosting via the algorithm and that's just pure vanity.
Because it's legally required by treaty.

Of course, the EU often ignores its own treaties. So that's not a hard guarantee. But the first rule of the EU is that everyone has to pretend it follows its own rules even when it doesn't, so it's not like Icelandic leaders can just announce they'll join the EU but won't adopt the Euro.
There have been roughly 18 major macOS releases since Little Snitch was released.

In that time, there have been 6 major versions of Little Snitch.

macOS has undergone pretty major architectural changes during that time, necessitating mandatory upgrades under some circumstances, but an OS update does not always force a LS upgrade.

> When there’s a new mandatory paid upgrade every couple years then it’s not far from a subscription service.

I disagree and don’t think people should mentally model subscriptions this way.

Subscriptions almost universally cost more on average than standalone purchases did, and there are still situations where it’s possible to remain on old versions in perpetuity, e.g. and old Mac that is kept around for a specific purpose but no longer receives major OS updates.

I think both models fall under a larger overarching umbrella of “software maintenance costs”, but those costs have always existed and standalone purchases vs. subscriptions are two fairly different ways of covering those costs.

Agree that this all feels worse on macOS due to the regular updates, but unlike Windows, I actually feel better over time about privacy/security and this naturally forces more app updates across the board. Microsoft’s commitment to backward compatibility is both convenient and increasingly a liability.
These kind of questions get ironed out during accession negotiations I think.
To give some details, the main betting exchange I use is Betfair, a UK betting company part of the same group that own Fanduel, and I place bets for or against outcomes in the last half an hour before the start. For example, you can back a team to win meaning you make a certain amount if the team wins, but you can also lay a team, meaning that if that team doesn’t win (another team wins or it’s a draw) you win that bet, with a payout of inverse the odds. There is no crypto involved, just GBP, and Betfair is a multibillion dollar company paying taxes and subject to the law and the UK regulating bodies. I have a model to predict short term movement in the odds, which is not amazing but enough better than random that it can overcome the fees and spread between the back and lay odds and be profitable.

Any further questions?
This is about Bench; “zombie” as in: “recently announced to be dead (shutting down)”[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061
Amusing, but the entire point of a greeting at this time of year is based on a particular culture and history. Its not purely astronomical, and its significance is reversed in northern and southern hemispheres and is not all that relevant in the tropics.
I’m under the impression (probably created by Apple) that anything not tailor made by them is worse. I can charge my phone with any 5V source and the right connector but it’s always slower than an Apple charger. Why, I don’t know. Could be that the phone just recognizes the Apple charger and refuses to charge full speed otherwise. But is there anything that could be done about that? It’s malicious compliance at worst or just a lowest common denominator standard at best.
I use third party batteries and the phone refuses to reliably gauge their health (understandable) which makes them objectively worse. The list goes on. It’s bad for the wallet and the environment but people still want to pay for complete tailor made ecosystems and I’m not optimistic that it can change completely via regulation. USB-C standardization lets me charge with a third party charger in a pinch but it still doesn’t rid me of Apple’s monopoly on good iPhone chargers!
I'm the person behind the project (and I have a funny feeling I used your 8x8 text driver back when I was trying to learn how the Propeller worked). Anyway, there were actually a few reasons behind the 160x200 video mode:

One was simplicity for the user. When this was all just an idea, I often compared it to a "Commodore Junior" in terms of functionality, and I wanted to keep it simple to learn from and have fun with. I thought something like the C64 or Plus/4's multicolor graphics mode would be the best compromise in terms of letting you make graphics/games but also having readable text output. A lot of old C64 games did just fine with 4x8 multicolor text, and even the VIC-20 did passably well with some of the 40-column extensions people wrote for it.

Another was simplicity from the standpoint of designing the thing. I actually looked into trying to mimic most of the VIC-II's functionality, including being able to mix low-res and high-res on the same line. I just couldn't convince myself there would be enough cycles to pull that off, or at least I'm not sharp enough to manage the feat, particularly with sprites also involved. You could do it with more cogs (Propeller cores) but since the Propeller is handling so many jobs (kind of like the TED on the Plus/4 series), there were constraints there as well. From there I went back to thinking about separate high-res and low-res modes, but that circles back to the above point about complexity.

Yet another reason was that Cody actually liked the multicolor graphics modes (and I do realize how that sounds). When I played around with different video graphics he got really big eyes and a smile watching multicolor tests on the TV. He also really enjoyed YouTube videos of Commodore Plus/4 games done in the multicolor mode it had when I was reading up on the TED. If it got his attention I found a way to work it in, and I also think a really smart Pomeranian isn't necessarily that much different from a really young boy in terms of researching your audience for this kind of thing.

(True story: At one point when I was showing Cody the Propeller breadboard I used for experimenting, he started slapping the RCA jack with his paw with a curious look like it was going to do something. I think he saw me plug that into the cable so many times that he concluded the RCA jack is what made it run or something.)
If you take these corporations to court these arguments don't stand up. In your oil example, if you had a warranty claim due to say a broken suspension component then the type of engine oil used wouldn't be relevant. It just allows them to try to weasel their way out of claims.
The CDU is a large party, not a particular large "organization" in terms of full-time CDU employees. The bureaucracy of the CDU is in no way responsible for nominating/selecting the EU President of the Commission.

Ursula on der Leyen was 2019 supported by Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) as the future president of the EU commission. That's no secret. Macron also supported her. The European Council then nominated Ursula on der Leyen and she was accepted by the European Parliament. The Parliament is directly elected the citizens of the European Union.

The election of her was kind of unfortunate, since it was signalled by parties that the election to the parliament will also find the proposed EU commission president. But that was not the case. Since a candidate was not found (various parties and governments were not happy with the proposed candidates), the European Council finally proposed Ursula von der Leyen, which then also got a majority in the parliament.
They don't want to become like USA, that is the easiest argument. We see how USA went the slippery slope of removing states rights and expanding federal power, people in the EU don't want that.

To prevent that from happening there needs to be a resistance to EU expanding its power, and the most effective way countries can do that is to threaten to leave.
New ThinkPad X9 comes without TrackPoint
> "...other useful things, but they didnt"

But they did. Nobody pays for X premium just to get a blue tick. Being verified I guess is part of it, but they're paying to get other things including less ads, Grok access, longer posts & videos, communities, media studio, monetization, and other things.
Makes Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Stiles look really good, doesn't it.
What is DOTS?
Robotics has long been an area of promise but (I think) limited returns
Yep, atm exclusively on Betfair but trying to expand.
Said on a social media platform?
Installing NetBSD on the Nintendo Wii